The fda has approved the vaccine for persons 50 through 59 years of age, but you got to have private insurance to have it covered.

Cdc does not have a recommendation for routine use of shingles vaccine in persons 50 through 59 years old. The advisory committee on immunization practices (acip) currently recommends the vaccine in people age 60 years and older, so patients with medicare can get it.
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You will receive procedural sedation, which means medications will be given like versed and result in moderate sedation (formerly called conscious sedation).

Versed causes short term amnesia, so you will most likely not remember the procedure and likely ask if they are going to start the procedure when it is actually completed. The final answer is that you will most likely not have pain.
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